Why AI throughput won't replace your people — it'll let them build more
When pneumatic nail guns arrived in the 1960s, hammer-swingers thought they were finished.
They weren't. The hammer disappeared; the carpenter stayed. Same crew, 5× the houses. AI doesn't replace people — it replaces the slow way they used to work.
Karpathy's window
before AI agents fully replace workers — "that's not 'you have time.' That's a 10-year window to be early."
AI doesn't replace people. It replaces the slow way they used to work.
Three pieces from the last 30 days that reinforce this analogy. Forward to the executive who's still calling it hype.
Karpathy is the patient counterweight to the panic. Not replacement tomorrow — replacement *of the slow way*. The carpenter stays.
Read the original →From the AI-supplier CEO: engineers don't disappear, they direct. Same crew, exponentially more output. The nail gun frame, exact.
Read the original →Griffin: "These are not mid-tier white-collar jobs. These are extraordinarily high-skilled jobs." The tool moved up the stack. The worker moves with it.
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